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Stories Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
- Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
- The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.
- Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
- This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the…
- What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
- Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so…
- You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age…
- This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the…
- Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.
- I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and…
- A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded…
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